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Vulgar Words and Belles Lettres: Yiddish Literature and American Obscenity
- Date: October 25, 2012
- Time: 7:30 pm
- Location: Leacock 14
Presented by Josh Lambert
The critic and translator Isaac Goldberg noted, in 1918, that "the theme of sex 鈥� is treated by Yiddish writers with far greater freedom than would be permitted to their American confreres." Half a century later, the poet and essayist Yankev Glatshteyn called Yiddish "one of the most modest languages in world literature." Treating a handful of celebrated American Yiddish texts by such authors as David Pinski, Sholem Asch, and Joseph Opatoshu, as well as the history of censorship of Yiddish literature in the U.S., this paper argues that Goldberg and Glatshteyn could both be right. This strange situation was the result of the unusual relationship between the Yiddish language and the American legal system.
Josh Lambert is the Academic Director of the National Yiddish Book Center and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His book Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Literature is forthcoming from NYU Press, and he is the author of American Jewish Fiction: A JPS Guide (2009).
Adventures in the Free World
Presented by David Bezmozgis
- Date: November 15, 2012
- Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Location:聽Maass Chemistry Building, room 328
David Bezmozgis is an award winning writer and filmmaker. His novel The Free World, published in 2011, was critically acclaimed by the New York Times,聽the Globe and Mail and short listed for the Scotiabank / Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award and the Amazon.ca first Novel Award.聽
Co-sponsored by the Department of English.
Free Admission. All Welcome.